only bits are binary. fluffy cannibalism. toxic rotten princess girl. READ mari okazaki, moto hagio, or kiriko nananan! mostly shoujosei & otome games. ๐ซ AI
Media Do announced today they acquired US Manga Publisher Seven Seas for 12.4 Billion Yen ($80 Million USD)
โข As of reporting, Seven Seas has not issued a statement in regards to the acquisition
japanese mangaka are being told machine translation is the only way to prevent people from reading scanlations of their work.
actually, using machine translation is the only guaranteed way to get scans to destroy the licensed manga market.
don't you just love it when series with gender non-conforming protagonists have the author decided "it's something you grow out of" and make them rigidly conform to cisheterosexual gender norms by the end.
crunchyroll wants you to think that streaming their anime legally supports the industry.
- they pay 3x less than competitors
- are practically a monopoly
- wants to undercut this further via AI
you should never give them a dime (their store included).
So upon further investigation:
Viz Media added an AI Translated manga to their Viz App
โข Itโs listed as โTL & Lettering Provided by Shogakukanโ but itโs the exact same version thatโs available on Emaqi
when the quality of scans far exceeds the incoherent nonsense of machine translated series and anyone, without any japanese knowledge, can create a near identical alternative, the legal manga market will die.